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Ring Lost 41 Years, Found
Oostburg, Wis., March 14. A
broad old-fashioned wedding ring
lost 41 years ago by Mrs. Ada Dan
iels, Sheboygan, was found recently
in a farm bean patch near here and
returned to her. It was found about
a half mile from the place where she
last remembered having it.
Cow Wins Bout With Farmer
Knoxville, Tenn., March 14.—J. H.
Peters lost both rounds in his brief
bout with a cow. The cow kicked
when Peters tried to milk her and
lie countered with a right to her jaw.
He broke his hand.
White House Called Firetrap
Washington, March 14. After
looking over the White House with
the practiced eye of a volunteer
fireman, Representative Karl Stefan
warned today that some night the
Presidential family may have to
flee down fireladders. “It’s a fire
t'ap,” he said. “I saw numerous
dusty cubbyholes that would burst
into flame the first time a match
was dropped in them.” In his home
state of Nebraska, Stefan became a
member of an old hand pump crew
years ago, and has been a volunteer
fireman there ever since.
Four Yolks Found in Egg
Portland, Ore., March 14.—Harry
Henderson discovered an egg contain
ing four yolks and is scanning rec
ords for a similar feat before claim
ing the world record for the white
leghorn hen which laid the freak
egg. It was discovered among some
turned in by George Hermanson, of
Webster’s Corners. Henderson made
the find as he candied them. The egg
measures 2 3-4 inches long by 1 3-4
wide.
Clock Made of Matches
Munich, March 14.—Two years'
work and 26,875 wooden matches
have produced a clock in Bad Richen
hall, South Bavaria, which keeps
such perfect time '/that people set j
their watches by it. It stands in the |
home of its maker, Franz Thaler, of
Bad Reichenhall. It is 40 inches high.
Baby’s Body Found
Concord, March 14.—Coroner N. J.
Mitchell today said there probably
would be no inquest into the dis- 1
eovery of the badly decomposed body j
Bruno Thinks He Will Not
Die In Spite Os All Signs
Trenton, N. J., March 14.—Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, his last reprieve
deadline passed at midnight last
right, paced his silent cell today still
convinced he would not die for the
kidnap-slaying of the Lindbergh
baby.
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, who
stayed Hauptmann’s execution on
January 17, announced yesterday
that he does not intend to grant a
new reprieve, that in fact, he has
no legal power to do so now.
At almost the same moment,
Hauptmann told his chief counsel,
C. Lloyd Fisher, he is confident he
will somehow win a new reprieve.
Tisher did not tell him of Hoff
man's announcement.
The governor, despite his an
nouncement, continued his investi
gation today of the Lindbergh
crime, which, he has said, he be
lieves is not completely solved.
He has in his office notes on the
case of a condemned man, repriev
ed after expiration of the 90-day
legal period. The man, Michael
THE LINCOLN TIMES
Elect Delegates to State and
Congressional Conventions
To Be Held This Month
Lincoln county Republicans in con
vention here Saturday afternoon
elected delegates to the State and
Congressional conventions to be held
this month, endorsed the administra
tion of the county chairman, C. R.
Jonas and pledged him their support
in his plans for organizing the.
county, and endorsed the leadership
of National Committeeman, Chas. A.
Jonas, voting unanimously to stand
solidly behind him for continuation
in said office, or any other honor he
may seek. Resolutions expressing
sympathy in the death of D. P. I
Rhodes, one of the party’s most able |
leaders, and in the serious illness of
A. P. Willis and J. 11. Sehronce were |
adopted by the convention.
The convention also passed a reso
lution endorsing the administration
oJ A. F. Reinhardt, as sheriff of Lin
coln county.
In the absence of the chairman,
who is out of the city, Harvey A.
Jonas presided over the meeting and 1
W. A. Abernethy was named as sec
ietary.
Delegates from the various town
ships to the state and congressional
conventions were named as follows:
Lincolnton
State Convention—C. R. Jonas, D.
11. Cloniger, Mike Whitener, Herman
Wilkinson; Congressional Ellis
Houser, Winslow Hallman, Charlie
Sehronce, Whitt Mullen.
Howard's Creek
State —Robert Wyant, T. Polk
Sain, J. D. McClurd, M. B. Shidal;
Congressional—L. C. Yount, A. S.
Yount, J. W. Hoover and C. M. Heav
ner.
Catawba Springs
State—Eph Killian, H. O. Proctor,
Mrs. Claud Bandy and Will Arm
strong: Congressional—M. M. Sher
t ill, Gray Nixon, Tom Keever and
Manuel Black.
I ronton Township
State—E. L. Ballard, D. P. Bynum,
W. A. Abernethy and C. F. Houser;
Congressional—Lloyd Wilkinson, A.
W. Keener, Ed Painter and W. T.
McAllister.
North Brook Township
State—Ellis Hoyle, Beverly Sain,
J. R. Sain and Mrs. Pearl Barnes;
Congressional—D. C. Upton, J. R.
Sain, T. E. Houser and B. A. Sain.
The delegates named for the Con
gressional convention will, on action
taken by the convention, constitute
the list of delegates to the Senate
i i'd Judicial conventions.
The State convention will be held
n Raleigh on Tuesday, March 24 and
the Congressional convention at
Burnsville on Saturday, March 21.
of a white baby in a shallow grave
within 60 yards of the entrance to
the Union cemetery in No. II town
ship.
Kostynski, sentenced to death March
10, 1920 in Camden for killing a
woman, was reprieved a second time
on August 7 of that year, 150 days
after imposition of the death penalty.
He was later adjudged insane and
is now a patient of the state hospital
lor the insane.
The constitution provides that
reprieves may not be granted later
than 90 days after conviction. In
Hauptmann's case, the goveilnor
said, that meant March 12 or 90
days after December 13 when a new
date of execution was fixed after
he lost his last court appeal.
In sharp contrast to Hauptmann’s
hopeful attitude, Charles Zied, the
obscure Philadelphia thug con
demned to die in the electric chair
the same night at Hauptmann, was
resigned to his fate.
Hauptmann’s execution date was
set for the week of March 30;
Zied'g was placed for the same
week and Warden Kimberling set
tled on a double execution.
Published On Monday and Thursday
LINCOLNTON, N. C. MONDAY, MAR. 16, l‘J36
[ Not For Publicity Purposes
NEW YORK . . . Above are Mr. and Mrs. George Burns with
daughter Sandra, 2, and brother Ronald, 6-months old. Mr. and Mrs.
Burns adopted both children from a Chicago fondling home, Sandra
more than a year ago and Ronald just recently. Photo shows Sandra
welcoming her new brother. ... Mr. and Mrs. Burns are widely known
... to screen and radio fans. They are none other than George Burns
and Gracie Allen.
Republican War Chest
Swelled By Big Gifts
FUNERAL SERVICES
HELD FRIDAY FOR
MRS. J. E. BREWER
Was the Mother of Fifteen
Children; Fourteen Are
Still Living
Funeral services for Mrs. J. Ellis
Brewer, were conducted Friday aft
ernoon from the Long Creek Baptist
church in Gaston county. Rev. C. E.
Phillips officiated.
Mrs. Brewer died at her home on
Dallas, Route 2, Thursday morning
after a brief illness. She was 45
years old.
Mrs. Brewer was a native of Lin
coln county, but had lived in Gaston
county, near the Willis school, since
1925.
She is survived by her father. J.
H. Auten of Lincoln county; her
husband: the following children:
Mrs. Lula Summey and Mrs. Huston
Black, both of Gaston county; and
Bryte, Addie, Virginia, Mary, Mollie,
Betty, J. D., Paul, William, Ben, Ad
rian, and Jack Brewer, all at home.
The following brothels and sisters
also survive: William, Larkin, J. L„
Theodore, John, and Ben Auten, Mrs.
Addie Goodson, and Miss Mary Au
ten, all of Lincoln county; R. M.
Auten of Maiden; Ed Auten of Cram
erton, and Adrian Auten of Columbia,
S. C. Her mother was the late Mrs.
Sara Auten of Lincoln county.
URGES CHLOROFORMING OF
FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN
Salem, Ore., March 14.—Hopeless
ly feeble-minded children committed
to State institutions should be put to
death, Dr. S. B. Laughlin, William
ette university sociology department
head, said today in an interview.
“One has only to visit the Oregon
State feeble-minded horns and look at
those children lying in bed unfit to
lift their heads to agree with me
that they should have been chloro
formed,” he declared.
Plow* Up Watch Lost 7 Years
Darlington, S. C., March 11. —In
the spring of 1929 L. P. Dowling lost
his watch while riding a trac
tor on his father’s farm. A few days
ago a negro, plowing in the same
field, came across it, undamaged.
Drunk Driver Picks (Os All Places) A
Judge’s Back Yard To Drop Anchor
Newton, March 14. Evidently
Virgil Dellinger, Lincolnton man, is
not familiar wiTH the resident judge
of the Sixteenth Judicial district,
Wilson Warlick of this city, as was
evident by his actions last Friday
afternoon.
Dellinger, accompanied by a friend,
drove into the local superior court
judge’s home on WJest C. street, and
after, succeeding in driving over
much of the judge’s pretty shrub
Campaign Contributions Are
Few and Far Between At
Democratic Headquarters
Washington, March 14.—Reports
submitted to the house for the first
two months of this year disclosed to
day that sizeable contributions are
pouring into the republican national
committee, but that *iriy are few
and far between around democratic
headquarters and the American lib
erty league.
During the first two months of the
election year, the republicans receiv
ed contributions aggregating $261,-
387. More than a score of them were
gifts of $5,000 or higher. The demo
crats with few big gifts, collected
cnly $49,053. The liberty league,
which got $438,000 last year, receiv
ed only $64,702.
Despite the scarcity of contribu
tions, the democrats were spending
much faster than the republicans.
Their income had been bolstered by
$200,000 from Philadelphia, the con
vention city, and $270,000 from the
Jackson day dinners in cities from
coast to coast.
The republican national commit
tee started the year with $260,480,
which added to contributions, gave
it a total of $521,387. It spent $166,-
599, leaving 356,288 in the treasury
on the first of March.
In contrast, the democrats spent
$322,900 out of $550,000, leaving only
277,000 on hand March 1, of which
$136,410 was owned on loans or in
unpaid bills.
The Liberty league made no ac
counting of its financial standing
either at the beginning or end of
the two months’ period, but re
ported total receipts of $64,452 and
expenditures of $108,175. Jouett
Shouse, head of the organization,
received $9,000 in salary and ex
penses during the two-month period.
The reports indicated that the du
Pont family, of Wilmington, Del.,
which contributed a large portion
ct the Liberty league’s funds last
year, has transferred its support for
the election year to the republicans.
No big du Pont contributions were
listed by the league, but the republi
can national committee received $5,-
000 from Lammot du Pont and the
republican congressional committee
reported $1,666 from him.
The republicans received twoscore
contributions of more than SI,OOO,
while the democrats listed only four
and the Liberty league none.
bery in the yard and barely missing
a large cedar tree, brought his car
to a stop at the rear of the house.
The genial judge, who happened to
be out in the back yard overseeing
some work in his gardens, walked up
to the car to inquire of the trouble.
He noticed that the two men were
intoxicated. He asked them to get
out of the car and let him back it
out of the yard and off his shrub
bery, whereupon the driver is said to
HEART ATTACK
PROVES FATAL TO
J. S. ARMSTRONG
Was One of Lincolnton’s Most
Prominent and Beloved
Citizens
James S. Armstrong, 57, local
agent for the C. and N. W. Railway
for the past thirty six years, died
Saturday night after an illness of
only a few hours.
He was sticken with a heart at
tack shortly after going to his office
around 8 o’clock Saturday night. Be
ing alone at the time, he managed
to reach the telephone and call Mrs.
Earl Padgett, at whose home he liv
ed. When members of the Padgett
family and the doctors reached him
he was desperately ill and unable to
talk. He was removed to the Reeves
hospital where he died at 10:30
o’clock.
Surviving are his aged father, J.
W. Armstrong, of Iron Station, two
sisters, Mrs. R. M. Dulin and Miss
Flossie Armstrong, and three broth
ers, L. P. Armstrong, of Charlotte,
Luther Armstrong, Charleston, S. C.,
end J. Frank Armstrong, of Lincoln
ton.
Mr. Armstrong was born in South
Carolina, January 19, 1879. When he
was a baby the family moved to
North Carolina where they have since
resided. For the past thirty six years
Mr. Armstrong has been in charge of
the local offices of the Carolina and
North Western Railway and was rec
cgnized as one of the most thorough
and efficient employes of the conr
iany.
He was a 32nd Degree Mason and
a Shriner and was one of the leading
members of this order in the state.
At the time of his death he was dis
trict deputy of the Grand Lodge of
Masons, of North Carolina, and had
held important office in the local
lodge. He was past chancellor com
mander of the local order of the
Knights of Pythias. He was a mem
ber of the Methodist chu-'ch and for
many years had served on the board
of stewards
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock from
the First Methodist church by tic?
pastor. Dr. A. L. Stanford. Full
Masonic honors were accorde 1 the
diseased by Lincoln Lodge No. 137,
A. F. and A. M. The Knights Temp
tars of Hickory formed an honorary
• scoot. The numeious handsome flor
al tributes were in charge of the
members ot the Eastern Star Chap
ter.
Li’iial w:i3 in Hollybrook cemetery.
HOPETO BUILD
50 MILES COTTON
ROADS IN STATE
Will Cost Around SBOO to sl,-
000 Per Mile More Than
Roads Now in Use
Raleigh, Mar. 14.—The State High
way and Public Works Commission is
hoping to be able to build from 50
to 60 miles of “cotton roads” this
spring and summer, as a result of
the appropriation by Congress to the
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads of
$1,300,000 to be used in building ex
perimental roads using cotton fabric
as a binder between the clay base
ar.d the bituminous surface on top,
Chief Engineer W. Vance Baise said
today. He has written to the Bureau
of Public Roads for further informa
tion and to find out, if possible, how
much of this sum will be alloted to
North Carolina.
“We have been planning to build
some of these ‘cotton roads’ this
spring with State funds, in order
to determine whether the surface
treated roads built with a cotton
fabric binder will stand up better
and wear longer than roads built
without it,” Baise said. “But if
the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
will furnish the fabric for the ex
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have become angered and attempted
lo insult the judge.
Judge Warlick then summoned a
i policeman and had the men locked
up, charging Dellinger with driving
under the influence of whiskey. In
Catawba county recorder’s court this
week, Dellinger was fined SSO and
the revocation of his driver’s license.
German Acceptance
Os Bid To League
Council Angers France
Schools for Adults
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(above), Superintendent of Min
neapolis, Minn., schools, is a
staunch advocate of night schools
for adults, like those in his city
where 9,000 adults are enrolled.
MRS, M. B. SHIPP
DIES SUDDENLY IN
ROME, ITALY
Body Expected to Be Brought
To Lincolnton For Funeral
And Burial
Mrs. Margaret Busbee Shipp, 64,
died suddenly in her hotel room in
Rome, Italy, Saturday morning. A
heart attack caused her death. News
of the passing of Xta. Ssipp was
cabled to relatives in Charlotte by
her son, Major William E. Shipp,
military attache, at Riga, Lativa.
Mrs. Shipp often visited in Lincoln
ton and is known to a large number
of people here.
Funeral arrangements have not
been learned but it is presumed that
the body will be brought to Lincoln
ton for burial by the side of her hus
band, Lieut. William E. Shipp, Span
ish-American war hero, and her son,
Capt. Fabius Shipp, who was killed
in a polo game some years ago.
Mrs. Shipp became distinguished as
a writer of magazine stories for Cos
mopolitan, Colliers, The Saturday
Evening Post, Century, The Ladies
Home Journal and other national
publications after the death of her
husband, who was killed at San Juan
Hill, July 1, 1898, at the head of the
Tenth Cavalry, which stormed the
heights and defeated the Spaniards.
Lieut. Shipp was at that time act
ing as aide to Col. Theodore Roose
velt.
She was the daughter of Fabius
and Annie McKesson Busbee, of Ra
leigh, where she was born Nov. 9,
1871. Her father was one of the
youngest officers in General John
ston’s army at the close of the war
between the states. Through him,
she was a descendant of the Faun
telroys and Bushwoods, names well
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President Roosevelt to Make
13 Million Available to Farms
Washington, March 14. —President :
Roosevelt has assured the senate
agriculture committee he will make
$13,000,000 of emergency funds avail
able for crop production loans effec
tive March 20 and more money up to
$30,000,000 as needed.
In a letter sent the committee and
read to its members by Chairman
Smith, D., S. C., the President said
it was “not practicable” to make the
entire $30,000,000 immediately avail
able. He said additional money would
be supplied “as rapidly as possible
end in ample time to meet the needs
cf the farm credit administration.”
The assurance from the President
appeared to make more unlikely than
ever any action by the committee to
ward recommending over-riding of
the President’s veto of the $50,000,-
000 seed or feed loan bill.
At the time of his veto, Mr.
Roosevelt promised to set aside
$30,000,000 of relief funds for 1936
loans. He already has made $7,000,-
000 available.
(Farmers may borrow np to S2OO
LOCAL MARKET
COTTON 1194 c pound
WHEAT $1.45 buahel
CORN 60c buahel
EGGS 18c dozen
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
Delegates From 14 Nations
Hasten Back to London aa
Fuehrer’s Note U Received
London, March 15.—Adolf Hitler
tonight accepted an invitation to be
represented at tomorrow’s meeting
of the League of Nations’ council,
hut added “qualifications” which im
mediately brought an angry, unoffi
cial rejection by France.
Informed of the gist of Hitler’s
reply, Foreign Minister Pierre-Etien
ne Flandin declared imphatically:
“If Hitler’s offer includes as a
condition that we discuss his peace
proposals, I refuse absolutely.
“I would walk out of the council
before I would do such a thing. I
would even leave the League of Na
tions.”
Two. Provisions
Germany qualified her acceptance
upon two demands—that her substi
tute peace proposal be taken up
jointly with her renunciation of the
Locarno treaty and that her repre
sentative "will take part on equal
terms” with council members.
The five paragraph German reply,
signed by Kostantin von Neurath,
Foreign Minister, was made public
by the League tonight.
Flandin said he had not read
Hitler’s reply, addressed to Dr.
Joseph A. C. Avenol, secretary
general of the League, but under
stood Hitler demanded that his sub
stitute peace proposals must be
discussed at the sam>> time with
Germany’s “Localpo .. ” tfitler
also was understood to insist that
Germany must be treated on a
footing of absolute equality.
BUL WINKLE OTES
RETIREMENT TALK,
WILL RUN AGAIN
Veteran Representative o f
1 Oth District Considering
No Appointive Job
Washington, March 14.—Represen
tative Bulwinkle today nailed the
report that he is to quit Congress
and be eased into a Federal appoin
tive position, by declaring he will
again ask the nomination for Con
gress at the hands of the Democrats
of the tenth district.
The announcement of Major Bul
winkle \s plans for the forthcoming
campaign was distributed by John
K. Slear, his secretary, who said
that the tenth district congressman
would spend his last day in the
hospital tomorrow, and would be
in his office bright and early
Monday morning, as was his went
before he went to the institution
six weeks ago for a rest.
for seed and feed. The government
takes a first lien on the crop as se
curity.)
JOE GISH SAYS—
There are 26 letters in
the alphabet, but it took
the New Deal to get the
maximum amount of turn
over.